Reddit reviews How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds

I just started How to Think by Alan Jacobs. Really enjoying it so far.

Thanks for the Kuhn suggestion, I will look that up. I recently read Alan Jacobs' "how to think", it's a very succinct short book https://www.amazon.com/How-Think-Survival-Guide-World/dp/0451499603 . Prior to reading it, I was a bit of a "facts vs feelings" guy a la Shapiro- although reading some things about Kant's "turn to the subject" had seeded doubts in me. After reading Jacobs' book, I was convinced that we are highly influenced in our thinking by our culture and other external forces. Not just in obvious ways, but very deeply through language and the psychology of human interaction. So I agree with most of what you said, but I would go further and say that everyone is ultimately religious. No one holds an emperically rigorous worldview that can be proven from the ground up. In fact, attempts to dothis are perhaps what is criticised in the Bible story of the Tower of Babel. So I think it is important to recognise the assumptions and axioms that others have, such as JP and Pageau. But we all need to be aware of our own axioms too. Our set of axioms, stated or not, form our own personal religion, regardless if we believe in the supernatural or not. In the Christian worldview, God is the "top axiom" in the heirarchy and other values are subordinate.
I now believe that it is impossible to "prove" any worldview beyond doubt and it is inconsistent to demand proof of others' axioms when we can't prove our own. I think that we are not left in a nihilistic post modern chaos, because we can still pick a worldview and examine it for internal consistency in the light of it's own axioms. I personally hold a Christian worldview and I find that in my experience, it is logically consistent and rational. To the best of my ability, I've looked at what I consider to be viable competing worldviews and they are not internally consistent. I acknowledge that I may be in error, however I will maintain my position until I see something more convincing.

How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds